Today in Science (0701)

Events

1858 - The joint reading of Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace’s papers on evolution to the Linnean Society.

Births

1742 - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, German physicist

1915 - Joseph Ransohoff, American neurosurgeon

1929 - Gerald Edelman, American biologist, Nobel laureate

1941 - Alfred G. Gilman, American scientist, Nobel laureate

Deaths

1971 - William Lawrence Bragg, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate

2001 - Nikolay Basov, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate

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